Rugby World – December 2012 edition contents

Autumn Tests special! The new issue of Rugby World brings you an in-depth preview of the autumn Internationals as the world’s best teams endeavour to achieve big wins and ensure they have a good seeding ahead of the 2015 World Cup draw. As well as features on the home nations’ brightest stars – Chris Ashton, George North, Rory Best and Ross Ford – we have also infiltrated the southern hemisphere camps to talk to their big names – All Black Kieran Read, South Africa captain Jean de Villiers, Wallaby wing Digby Ioane and Argnetina’s talisman Juan Fernandez Lobbe.

On top of all that, we exclusively reveal the new Lions shirt for the 2013 tour to Australia, Stephen Jones explains how to solve the Heineken Cup row with a new competition, we look back at Lions history to name ten left–field selections who have made their mark on tour and we take a World Cup road trip across Europe with Jonny Wilkinson, Lawrence Dallaglio and Will Greenwood.

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Forwards…

30 minutes with… Tim Visser

RWC 2015 seedings

Revealed – The new Lions shirt

Geoff Parling – The England lock runs the rule over the autumn opposition

Sean Holley – The ex-Ospreys coach on how teams can beat the All Blacks